At 10:45 (local time) this morning, Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013, our confrere returned to the Father FR. ANTHONY TIMOTHY CHENEVEY
84 years, 60 of Pauline life, 58 of religious profession, 55 of priesthood
Father Anthony was born and raised in the farming region of Fredericksburg, Ohio, one of three brothers and three sisters, on July 31st, 1928.
Soon after World War II ended, he found himself part of the American Military Occupation Force stationed in Japan in the 1950’s. One day while walking through a Tokyo neighborhood, he came upon a local missionary group known as the Society of St. Paul. He had never heard of them. Their chapel however, handy to his army base, led to his befriending the community. It was this chance fmiliarity with a struggling Pauline apostolic reality in the far-off, war-torn
orient that would become the inspirational seed for his religious vocation.